Eckart Muthesius
Eckart Muthesius (born May 17, 1904 in Berlin ; † August 9, 1989 ) was a German architect and interior designer .
Life
Eckart Muthesius was the third of five children of the architect Hermann Muthesius and his wife Anna Muthesius , a trained concert singer who designed interior architecture and women's fashion as an autodidact. He studied at the United State Schools for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg and at Regent Street Polytechnic in London and, after first working there , was a master student of his father's with James & Yerbury and Raymond Unwin , a founding member of the Deutscher Werkbund .
In 1929 Muthesius met Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur in Oxford , who then, as Maharajah Holkar II of Indore, commissioned his friend and mentor Muthesius in 1931 to build and furnish his palace Manik Bagh in the capital Indore . In addition to his own furniture and lights, Muthesius also equipped the palace with furniture by Eileen Gray , Le Corbusier , Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann , Louis Sognot , Charlotte Perriand and carpets by Ivan da Silva Bruhns .
Muthesius became the official advisory architect for the urban development and redevelopment authorities of the Princely State of Indore from 1936 to 1939 and was involved in the introduction of a western modern design language into contemporary Indian architecture . When World War II began, he had to leave British India . In post-war Germany he specialized in the construction of hospitals and functional buildings, especially for the US Army .
In 1989 some of his furniture designs were reissued. On the 50th anniversary of India's independence , the Werkbundarchiv organized a major retrospective of its work in 1997.
His grave is in the Nikolassee cemetery in Berlin in the family crypt of his parents.
Buildings and designs
- 1925: Illuminated advertising on the former Mädlerhaus in Berlin
- 1927–1928: Planning and expansion of Crawfords Reklame-Agentur GmbH in Potsdamer Straße 111, Berlin
- 1928: Revelation shop for Francis Kennedy at Tauentzienstrasse 11, Berlin
- 1928: Carl August von Gablenz's house in Berlin
- 1928–1929: Residence for Senate President Albrecht von Hagen in Berlin-Schlachtensee
- around 1929: Furnishing an apartment with a picture gallery for OT Falk in London
- 1929: Pegler House in Berlin-Frohnau , Hainbuchenstrasse 26
- 1929: Design of the Jockey Bar in Berlin, Lutherstrasse 2
- 1929–1932: Interior of the Manik Bagh palace for the Maharajah of Indore
- 1930: House for Fritz Huber in Berlin-Westend , Marathonallee 25
- 1930: Landhaus Dr. Seifert in mountains on Rügen
- 1931: Design for a country house at Rajpilia Tank near Indore for the Maharajah of Indore
- 1933–1934: German House competition designs for the Brussels World Exhibition in 1935
- 1934: Design for a houseboat for the Maharajah of Indore
- 1934: Frankenberg house in Kleinmachnow
- 1934–1935: Planning for an apartment house in India
- 1934–1935: Staff and guest house in Indore
- 1936–1937: Planning for the throne room Purdar Hall of the Maharajah of Jaipur
- 1936–1937: Urban planning studies for the state of Hyderabad
- 1936–1937: Private home for a lawyer in Bombay
- 1937: Planning for a 500-bed hospital in Indore
- 1937: Equipping a railway saloon car for the Maharajah of Indore
- 1941: Oranienburg General Hospital .
- 1945: Repair: OMGUS headquarters for the US Army in Berlin .
- around 1946: Harnack House with officers' club for the US Army in Berlin-Dahlem .
- around 1946: Reconstruction of the Berlin Chamber Court at Heinrich-von-Kleist-Park for the Allied Control Commission .
- 1948: Marine Bar in the Harnack House in Berlin-Dahlem (with Willy Kreuer )
- 1948: Furnishing of the private residences of US Generals Dwight D. Eisenhower and Lucius D. Clay in Berlin-Dahlem
- 1948: Muthesius summer house in Kloster on Hiddensee
- 1949–1953: 1000-bed hospital in Landstuhl for the US headquarters in Heidelberg
- 1949–1953: Execution of military buildings in Landstuhl, Kaiserslautern, Neubrücke, Bad Hersfeld, Frankfurt
- 1949–1953: Radio Free Europe broadcasting building in Munich , Englischer Garten
- 1953: Hotel building at Haus Marina in Frankfurt a. M., Savignystraße 31
- 1955: Exhibition stands for the Frankfurt Motor Show
- 1955: Establishment of a spa in Westerland (canceled)
- after 1953: Central Medical Depot of the American Army in Croix-Chapeau
- after 1953: clinics in Bordeaux , Croix-Chapeau, Evreux, Orly.
- after 1953: residential complex in Sèvres near Paris (with MPO Bauer)
- 1953–1970: Service stations on behalf of the Bonn Ministry of Transport: Camberg gas station, Frankfurt-Nord, Darmstadt, Limburg, Offenbach road maintenance facility
- before 1970: Commercial building for Triton-Belco AG in Frankfurt a. M., Hanauer Landstrasse 117;
- before 1970: House of Confection , with a movie theater in Frankfurt a. M., Kaiserstrasse 54;
- before 1970: Office building for Weinberger Musikverlag GmbH in Frankfurt a. M., Oeder Weg 26
- before 1970: Housing complexes in Berlin: Erfurter Straße, Westfälische Straße, Calandrellistraße, Viktoria-Luise-Platz.
- before 1970: Housing complex in Frankfurt-Sulzbach for the Hoechst paintworks
- before 1970: Kutsch single-family houses, von Livonius, Nitschke, Rothe-Rimpler in Berlin
- before 1970: Prentzel single-family home in Frankfurt
- before 1970: F. Albrecht single-family house in Hamburg
- before 1970: Single-family house JW Menne in Oberursel.
- 1965–1967: Residential and commercial building in Berlin-Charlottenburg at the corner of Lietzenburgerstrasse and Knesebeckstrasse (with Klemens Weigel)
- around 1970: Detmerode settlement for the Volkswagen plant in Wolfsburg
- 1973: Alois Heintze rock factory in Berlin, Tempelhofer Ufer
- 1978: Dr. W. Lehmann in Berlin-Dahlem, Griegstrasse
such as:
- Pjerregard holiday home for the director Walter Felsenstein in Kloster ( Hiddensee Island ), Hügelweg 19 (under monument protection)
Awards
- Honorary Member of the Architectural Association School of Architecture , London, England
literature
- Reto Niggl (ed.): Eckart Muthesius 1930. The Maharaja's palace in Indore. Architecture and interior. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-925369-55-4 .
- Reto Niggl (Ed.): Eckart Muthesius. India 1930–1939. Architecture, design, photography. Goethe-Institut , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-00-003905-8 . (Catalog for the traveling exhibition)
Web links
- Summer freshness on Hiddensee - Eckart Muthesius's holiday home in Kloster. (in Hiddensee / Rügen ) State Monument Preservation, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Palace of Indore by Eckart Muthesius 1930. (Manik Bagh) artnet.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Moderne Maharajah, un mécène des années 1930. https://madparis.fr , accessed on September 25, 2019 (English).
- ↑ Indian visions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1989, pp. 254-258 ( online ).
- ↑ Eckart Muthesius's country house . In: Wasmuthsmonthshefte für Baukunst und Städtebau, vol. 14, 1930, pp. 182-183 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ^ Nicola Bröcker: Kleinmachnow near Berlin - Living between city and country 1920-1945 . Gebrüder Mann Verlag, Berlin 2010
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muthesius, Eckart |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Muthesius, Eckhart (incorrect spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect and interior designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1989 |